Does his departure Surprisingly, on September 9, 2021, cultural events in Beirut restore the specter of the Lebanese director superior teston various occasions and opportunities. This is done both by showing the films of his signatures and by restoring rare ones, as was done by the “Our Films” platform last April.
Or in the manner of “A Club for All People,” which recently released a small booklet titled “To You, Burhan… Wherever You Are,” and included 12 articles by writers, directors, and critics about the late cinematographer.
“Beirut Burhan” is the title of the long docufilm (117 minutes), which will be screened next Wednesday at 20:00, in the “Metro Al-Madina” in Beirut, by the Kuwaiti-Lebanese director Farah Al-Hashem, in an attempt to look at the decade of the seventies, tracing the impact of Alawiya, born in the southern city of Arnoun in 1941.
Al-Hashem’s work monitors the cinematic trend that began to take shape at the hands of the owner of ‘Kafr Qassem’ (1974) before the Lebanese civil war broke out a year later. And between Arnon andBeirutThe picture becomes clear, before he moved to Paris and Brussels, which marked him, not only from an academic point of view, but also because he considered his stay there more like an exile.
The film is about a group of artistic and literary names who collaborated with Alawiya in acting and writing including: Haitham Al-Amin, Ahmed Baydoun, Muhammad Kalash, Hadi Zakak, Nadim Jarjoura and others.
Interestingly, the film was shown for the first time last month in Gaza as part of the activities of the “International Red Carpet for Human Rights” festival, but it is regrettable that it was prevented from being shown earlier in Kuwait, while some consumer and normalization shows received the road before them without any censorship.
It is worth noting that the film is part of a research Al-Hashem is working on to obtain his doctorate and is titled “Identity and belonging in Lebanese cinema during the war”. written”.
